self-evaluation of events and partnership-out reach--building up model to share with partners.-sara developing couple of questions before next staff call.

Categories: sponsorship, collaboration between communities, training-for-hire, conference, show and tell,

Metrics: continued engagement, public lab members, research notes/tools, media, new ideas for organization, retail, independence over time of a place-based community research project.

report to share with team list, potentially edited into a research note

*Updates:
* Follow up on Philly Talk: Wagner Free Institute for Science: http://www.wagnerfreeinstitute.org/ A great partner organization for us, they are a based in a EJ community, they run community free science events, they have partnerships with 4 local school for afterschool science curriculum, they have a large NSF grant for that work, that is coming to an end. We should follow up with meeting about use of Public Lab tools in their curriculum and possibility of collaborative funding--they are interested in starting a middle school program---[School Collaboration Working Group?]
* follow up local radio on Public Lab-Met the guy who runs the community radio station, he approached me about doing a story on us.
* discussion underway between EDF, Jody Roberts at Chemical Heritage Foundation about co-organizing a meeting on endocrine disruptors.

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NYC - EcoHack on Earth Day Weekend was a smashing, rainy success at Parsons the New School for Design. Collaborating with the Sensemake.rs community (creators of Air Quality Egg) resulted in a sensor pack wirelessly transmitting 6 variables from balloon to ground. Next steps will be to coordinate with data visualizers, test the lenticular balloon case + “tail fin” combo, and mark the line in 20’ increments.

Making two new batches of H2S test strips - can be sent out to interested community members (San Juan...). Update on cool tent container that can be shipped flat. [Sara to revise this] Check out their Clean Air Act win against fracking http://stuff.com